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Hilton Honors Aspire Approved 10K

Shadowfactor — Sat, 12 Jan 2019 22:00:23 GMT

I was trying to cool it on Amex Sub's for a while as I've gotten 6 within the past 16 months. So I referred my fiancee for the SPG luxury card. She got the dreaded popup. Opened a Delta Gold card hit required spend and then closed it at the year mark.

This lead me to decide to app for the Hilton Aspire as I stay at Hiltons occasionally for work and have some personal Hilton/SPG stays coming up with the NZ Mistake Fare.

Will be adding the SPG luxury card for myself at a later date if I cant get her approved with the SUB.

Instant approval for $10,000

FICO 8 : 778

Amex Member since October 2017

No HP

I anticpate them honoring the SUB. I've spent 46K across all amex cards in 2018.

Offered 150K HH points as SUB.

Total Amex Exposure : 38K within 16 months

Re: Hilton Honors Aspire Approved 10K

Anonymous — Sat, 12 Jan 2019 22:00:30 GMT

Congratulations!!

Re: Hilton Honors Aspire Approved 10K

Anonymous — Sat, 12 Jan 2019 22:37:56 GMT

Congrats on your Amex Hilton Honors Aspire card! Awesome benefit card!

Re: Hilton Honors Aspire Approved 10K

AverageJoesCredit — Sat, 12 Jan 2019 22:38:08 GMT

Congrats. Im blown away that you got approved by Amex who would have thunk

Re: Hilton Honors Aspire Approved 10K

Cred4All — Sat, 12 Jan 2019 22:50:30 GMT

Congrats on joining the Hilton bandwagon . Nice SL!

Re: Hilton Honors Aspire Approved 10K

19eighty5 — Sun, 13 Jan 2019 03:09:59 GMT

Congratulations on your approval!

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Priory_Man — Sun, 13 Jan 2019 03:17:18 GMT

Congrats on the approval and the healthy SL.

Re: Hilton Honors Aspire Approved 10K

Pikaboo-icu — Sun, 13 Jan 2019 04:54:29 GMT

Well done..

Congrats!

Re: Hilton Honors Aspire Approved 10K

Shadowfactor — Sun, 13 Jan 2019 15:30:21 GMT

Thanks everyone

Re: Hilton Honors Aspire Approved 10K

Anonymous — Sun, 13 Jan 2019 18:43:42 GMT

Congrats on your approval and and very nice SL !!!!!

Re: Hilton Honors Aspire Approved 10K

Shadowfactor — Sun, 13 Jan 2019 20:31:58 GMT

Hopped on chat today to confirm the SUB.

Amex is reporting that they aren’t seeing a SUB tied to the card. Asked for 1 business day for all offers to appear. Will report back tomorrow evening.

I never received a pop up and I’ve spent quite a bit of money on my Amex cards this past year. It will definitely leave a sour taste in my mouth if they deny the SUB.

Re: Hilton Honors Aspire Approved 10K

Shadowfactor — Mon, 14 Jan 2019 14:54:09 GMT

Update : Spoke with Amex this morning about the bonus not being tied to my account. Asked for a Platinum CS manager. They called over to the Rewards team and got it all straightned out. 150K HH points for 4K spend. They mentioned I had opened alot of cards with Amex lately but were going to honor the bonus due to amount spent on cards.

I will hit the required spend for the bonus before the month is over and we will see where things stand at that point. I believe they will honor the bonus though as I give them quite a bit of my spend and will be giving amex even more.

This throws a wrench in my plan for the SPG luxury card if I'm not able to get my fiancee the bonus due to SUB popup. I may just have to signup without the bonus. I would need the card before May as I have plans for the 50K night redemption in June 2020.

Re: Hilton Honors Aspire Approved 10K

Repairman — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 09:13:23 GMT

Congrats! No hard pull? Does AMEX not do hard pulls for existing customers? I currently have the SPG card and want to apply for the Hilton.

Re: Hilton Honors Aspire Approved 10K

LittleSal — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 12:23:11 GMT

Congrats! I just picked up the Aspire too. I wish AMEX would beef up the card design. Could use a more premium look. Metal would also be nice!

Re: Hilton Honors Aspire Approved 10K

Shadowfactor — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 12:51:39 GMT

@Repairman wrote:
Congrats! No hard pull? Does AMEX not do hard pulls for existing customers? I currently have the SPG card and want to apply for the Hilton.

No, normally if you’re credit is in a good shape they will not do HP’s for additional products.

Re: Hilton Honors Aspire Approved 10K

Shadowfactor — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 12:53:04 GMT

@LittleSal wrote:
Congrats! I just picked up the Aspire too. I wish AMEX would beef up the card design. Could use a more premium look. Metal would also be nice!

I don’t ever plan to use the card except Hilton stays so it will remain SD’d

Re: Hilton Honors Aspire Approved 10K

sdsoccerdad — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 15:22:33 GMT

Congrats! This is probably my favorite Amex card! Don't forget to take advantage of the airline credits.

Re: Hilton Honors Aspire Approved 10K

Shadowfactor — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 20:15:49 GMT

Just to update this thread.

Received the signup bonus with no problems. 3 days after hitting Min spend.

This is my 6th amex card within 18 months. Always received the SUB's. Closed one card at the 12 month mark with less then $8,000 in yearly spend. Combined spend on all Amex accounts in 2018 was 46K

Re: Hilton Honors Aspire Approved 10K

sdsoccerdad — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 22:07:51 GMT

@Shadowfactor wrote:
Just to update this thread.

Received the signup bonus with no problems. 3 days after hitting Min spend.

This is my 6th amex card within 18 months. Always received the SUB's. Closed one card at the 12 month mark with less then $8,000 in yearly spend. Combined spend on all Amex accounts in 2018 was 46K

They're pretty quick at getting the sub out once you meet your msr. I just got the Aspire last December and experienced the same as you.

Re: Hilton Honors Aspire Approved 10K

Anonymous — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 06:56:25 GMT

Congrats on your approval! Leaning more and more towards applying especially since I’m seeing that Amex tends to not do hard pulls for additional cards.